SAP Analytics Cloud Features

Reports interface for standard and self-service reports is intuitive and easy to use.

Requires a minimal number of steps/clicks to answer business question.

Offers a variety of attractive graph and chart formats.

Score cards visually track KPI's.

Provides business users an interface to easily design, refine and collaborate on their dashboards

Reports interface for standard and self-service reports is intuitive and easy to use.

Receive email reports and notifications regarding metrics.

Requires a minimal number of steps/clicks to answer business question.

Using formulas based on existing data elements, users can create and calculate new field values.

Business users have the ability to filter data in a report based on predefined or automodeled parameters.

Users can drill down and explore data to discover new insights.

Ability to search global data set to find and discover data.

Ability for users to share data and reports they have built within the BI tool and outside the tool through other collaboration platforms.

Tool automatically suggests data types, schemas and hierarchies.

Analyze current and historical trends to make predictions about future events.

Communicate complex information clearly and effectively through advanced graphical techniques.

Ability to handle large, complex, and/or siloed data sets.

Converts data formats of source data into the format required for the reporting system without mistakes.

Ability to (re)structure data in a manner that allows extracting insights fast and accurate.

Provides business users an interface to easily design and refine their dashboards and reports. (What You See Is What You Get)

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

Supports a variety of scripting environments

Mines data from databases and prepares data for analysis

Applies statistical algorithms to selected data

Analyzes both structured and unstructured data

Interacts with data to prepare it for visualizations and models

Offers modeling capabilities

Creates data visualizations or graphs

Generates reports of data performance

Unifies information on a singular platform

Ability to track historical data.

Track metrics in real time with consistent and frequent updates.

Receive email reports and notifications regarding metric.

Ability to track historical data.

Track metrics in real time with consistent and frequent updates.

Uses collected data to assist organizations in understanding what they can afford now, and in years to come.

Creates a continuous and recurrent planning process that can be calculated according to a specified and customizable timeline.

Leverages data from budgeting and forecasting processes to help corporations understand their reality and make decisions accordingly.

Offers methods of visualizing data via customizable dashboards, statistical graphs, and charts.

Scours data for actionable insights.

Allows users to customize their own reports according to business needs.

Provides pre-built reporting templates to organize data for payroll, manufacturing, and other company factions.

Allows for searchable communication within the tool via notes, checklists, and discussions to ensure clarity between users.

Reflects updates immediately, ensuring users have the most recent data while maintaining records of past performance.

Updates varying factors in real-time, assuring forecasts and inferences are continually made according to the most recent information.

Displays and shares company performance data to increase transparency across the board.

Ability to connect the analytics platform with a wide range of connector options for common data sources, including popular enterprise applications.

Connects to enterprise data governance software, or provides integrated data governance features to avoid misuse of data

Using formulas based on existing data elements, users can create and calculate new field values

Business users have the ability to filter data in a report based on predefined or automodeled parameters.

Allows the user to combine data from multiple sources into a functioning dataset.

Analysis that creates business plans outside of finance, including sales, marketing, or HR.

Reports on departmental KPI metrics measured against targets.

Consolidates planning processes across an organization into a single solution.

Offers a variety of attractive graph and chart formats.

Score cards visually track KPI's.

Provides business users an interface to easily design, refine and collaborate on their dashboards

Allows one to create and export visualization into various formats (PNG, JPEG, etc.)

Provides the ability to easily share visualizations.

Allows multiple users to edit and create visualizations together.

Has the ability to edit visualization across devices and device types (e.g. computer and phone).

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Enables non-technical users to build dashboards through intuitive, drag-and-drop interfaces

Enables automated report generation and scheduled delivery to stakeholders

Allows dashboards and analytics to be embedded into external apps with branding flexibility

Supports integration with major data sources like cloud data warehouses, SQL/NoSQL databases, and SaaS applications

Efficiently processes large datasets with minimal lag and ensures high performance under load

Maintains performance and uptime during high traffic from multiple users or teams

Supports semantic data layers, role-based access controls, and metadata governance

Integrates with Jupyter, Python, or R for custom analytics and modeling

Provides native tools for statistical analysis, forecasting, and trend prediction

Uses AI to generate textual summaries, key takeaways, and data stories from dashboards

Allows users to query data and build reports using conversational or plain language

Detects and notifies users about KPI anomalies or significant metric changes in real time

Recommends next questions, analyses, or exploration paths using autonomous AI agents

Learns from historical user interactions to improve and personalize query results over time

Tailors dashboard views and suggestions based on user roles, access levels, and past behavior

Supports AI-driven exploration via prompts or multi-turn conversations for iterative querying

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives